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It's such an annoying metaphor for those of us who live in a country where all swans are black.
by stevage 5y ago
It's such an annoying metaphor for those of us who live in a country where all swans are black.
- pessimizer 5y agoIt's an annoying metaphor anyway. If you've defined a swan as a particular type of white bird, it's impossible for a black swan to ever come. "Black swan" is just a tautological term for new thing we've never seen before, but pretending to be a term for known thing that suddenly behaved differently. Sometimes things happen that, in order to make money or cut costs, we convinced people were impossible.
- tshaddox 5y ago> "Black swan" is just a tautological term for new thing we've never seen before, but pretending to be a term for known thing that suddenly behaved differently. Right. "Black swan" means "a new thing we've never seen before," but of course few people go around thinking "I will never encounter a new thing that I've never seen before."